January 25, 2006

Around the Update in Eighty Seconds extra

So, what’s been going on?

This is what’s been going on:

School is school. I’m taking four classes (two of which are independent study), writing and preparing a thesis, advertising for said thesis, planning a regional conference for area administrators, making plans to move to California, and is there anything else? I can’t quite think of much right now, but I’d say this is enough for four months.

My dryer is suddenly working again. For those who may not know (which is probably everyone), my dryer quit working, for what seemed permanently, back in the end of November. It magically started working again today. I ask no questions. I’m just thankful.

My bathroom pipes are clogged again. And I’m going to gross out every male that reads this, but I’ll be a dead monkey’s uncle before I quit flushing my tampons. They’re nasty…and they need to be flushed. I bought a snake, but the stupid thing won’t go through my toilet. When I flush, it works okay if I plunge. But when I run water in my bathtub, air bubbles come up in my toilet. It’s the toilet. I know it is. I’ve lived here two years and I’ve never had a problem. I had the toilet replaced just before last year (the tank on the old one cracked and it flooded my bathroom)…and it clogged eight months later…and then again now…what, four months later? Does anyone know if it’s completely detrimental to pour Drano into the toilet? My landlord’ll be pissed if I have to call him about this again…especially since he glued my toilet down because it was leaking after they roto-rootered my pipes.

*EDIT:*
The pipes magically unclogged. Don’t get me wrong. I still keep the plunger handy just in case. But still, yay! No humiliating phone call to the landlord. Also, the dryer quit again. So, the phone call will be more like urgent…not humiliating. Because I know there’s no way a tampon could have clogged the power line. And if so, it’s not mine, nor is it my responsibility.
*END EDIT*

That’s pretty much it. Oh, and I’m watching Oprah beat the mental crap out of James Frey. I had questions about the truthfulness of the book – root canals without anesthetic? However, clue one: He doesn’t have any sort of scar on his face…you know, where half his cheek had been ripped out? Either way, I didn’t worry about it a whole lot. But now that it’s out and it’s a major deal and there’s a lot of falsification, it frustrates me. The man made a lot of money off of people who believed that this was his life story. Oprah needed to be taken down a notch or two, but I still feel sorry for her…she backed the man, and she was utterly humiliated. She’ll stick with fiction from now on, I bet.

Seacrest out.

BlueSkies

January 26, 2006

I read the book before the controversay and I wondered the same things, plus, how can you get 3 months for hitting a cop with a car? There was a lot that seemed fabriated.

You flush your tampons? WHAAA? You crazy woman. They’re not flushable! They’re meant to be thrown away! This is so weird to me! I can’t get over the flushing tampon thing, I’m sorry!

RYN: Well, what I do with both pads and tampons is I wrap them in toilet paper and then put them in the outside bin. The reason I don’t flush tampons down the toilet is because it blocks the pipes. I wonder what other women do? Let’s take a survey!

RYN: Oh phooey! Let’s gross out EVERYONE.

Grace Personified

January 27, 2006

I flush mine. So, I’ll shock Karma Girl, too. 🙂 And if the pipes clog again, try bleach. Like, a whole bottle. It works for shower/sink clogs, too. Also, unless the clog is exceedingly bag, a regular sized bottle should do, not the giganto ones. Pour the bleach in and let it set for a few hours and it usually takes care of most clogs. It at least makes them… less clog-y.

Merinda

Whaaaat. I can’t believe you and Syd both flush them. That’s insane to me, crazy women. One of the first things my mother explained to me when I got my period was that I wasn’t to flush these things down the toilet. And, at one time, my mother, sister and I were all getting our periods around the same time. If we were all flushing…water would never flow in our house again.

ryn/rmn: It gets poured into the toilet. And my mom taught me to flush ’em. Though the health instructor that showed us the “sponsored by Always” video about “becoming a woman” in fifth grade was pretty dogmatic about *not* flushing them. And she kind of freaked me out in general. She was the kind of woman you’d get no sympathy from if you were incapacitated by cramps. She’d tell you… (cont.)

… you should be up and moving around because that’d make them go away. Actually, that is what she told us. And when I came home and informed my mother that the health instructor was all “flushing is of the devil” my mom said “well, they’re disgusting and we flush them.” So, I flush. Because I agree with my mom. And our cycles don’t overlap that often.

RYN: No, no, they totally ARE disgusting, girls. I mean, it’s blood flowing from within to without and it happens for days and days and it’s crazy. But…it’s not like I’m suggesting that one should pin them to some sort of bulletin board for posterity. The little tiny bathroom garbage cans were pretty much *designed* for our sanitary napkinal needs, you know?

you have magical appliances. all frey had to do at the very beginning was put an author’s note: facts have been altered to protect the innocent, based on true events, taken from what i can remember” and none of this would have happened. he’s obviously messed up in the head. love,

Jeanine

that was me. blasted unsigned note button.

Let’s have a debate: Grace & IOAA against Aarika and Angie: To Flush or not to Flush?

Wait a minute… so it’s not normal to pin them to a bulletin board for posterity? *worried*

January 28, 2006

Heh. I love the bulletin board remark. And who is crazy enough to flush pads? I mean, seriously. That is insane. And I don’t deny the logic or basis for not flushing the tampons. But, I flush. I will most likely always flush. I’ve refrained from flushing if I was somewhere where such a thing was potentially punishable by death. But otherwise I’m all about flushing. (cont.)

Not flushing skeeves me out. And my cycle is always at least 35 days, so I don’t really sync with anyone I live with. So, the debate would most likely be an argument where I would concede there is reason in the not flushing, but refuse to be swayed.

Well then, we’d just have to throw pies and pudding at each other instead of debating. Why? Well… why not? I’ll get the ball rolling. *banana pudding flying everywhere*